Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

Money pads the edges of things.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.